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Job One of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act: Closing the Digital Divide

Business and Tech

The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. Simultaneously, the COVID lockdown exposed huge pockets of the United States that do not have access to modern tools nor technology to educate our young. For more than 50 years, U.S.

LEAN 299
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Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead

Paul Hobcraft

credit InnoLead and KPMG I have always welcomed the KPMG LLP-sponsored InnoLead benchmarking report; this is for the third year. What can we do to build our innovation capabilities for the future? • How does our innovation team compare to innovation teams at other companies?

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Every idea needs a sponsor

Jeffrey Phillips

As I noted yesterday, I'm writing a series of posts about what I've learned over the last 15 years of corporate innovation work. Yesterday I wrote about needing a "why and a how" rather than a "what" for innovation. Today, I'd like to write about sponsorship, and why it is critical to have engaged sponsors for ideas and for innovation.

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Improving the Wellness of a Diverse Workforce

Business and Tech

The 2021 Workplace Wellness Survey finds an important disconnect between what employees expect from their employers when it comes to workplace wellness, and how they rate employers’ efforts. While these employer-sponsored programs will not resolve the racial/ethnic wealth gap, they may help level the playing field over time.

Policies 130
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How far can “navigation” tools really take students?

Christensen Institute

That messiness casts a long shadow over how much schools and postsecondary institutions can do, especially given punishing student-to-advisor ratios. But any bets on postsecondary and workforce navigation tools should account for what current market dynamics and research tell us students need and want.

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Innovation Building Block 2 - important, unsolved problem or opportunity

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm going back to basics for a handful of blog posts - back to what I call the innovation building blocks. In this episode of the continuing series on innovation building blocks, I'm going to be focusing on the importance of an important and unsolved problem or opportunity. To which you'd say: no kidding. Our technology or their need?

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Book Review - Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou

Jeffrey Phillips

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this chapter, he defines what a good innovation process could look like and uses good examples.